Ghana is finalising an agreement with Germany to export nurses, Mr Joe Danquah, the Chief Executive Officer of the Middle Belt Development Authority (MBDA) has said.
He said the Authority was holding extensive discussions with German health institutions in that regard, saying the discourse was progressing steadily.
Mr Danquah said the agreement would provide opportunities for German health professionals to offer in-service training for the interested Ghanaian nurses to meet certain requirements.
Speaking in an interview with Sky News at Asekye, a farming community in the Nkoranza North Municipality of the Bono East Region, Mr Danquah said the MBDA had also prioritised building the nation’s human resource development.
The CEO had earlier handed over a 30-shed maize market constructed at the cost of GHC304,000, to the chiefs and people of the area. Attached to the market is a newly built 10-seater water closet toilet.
Mr Danquah explained the Authority was constructing Astro-turf pitches to promote sports development, saying very soon it would open cultural and arts villages that would offer employable skill training to the youth.
“We are also set to set up agriculture business centers to train the youth in agric-business as well as organise a business investment summit to highlight the rich cultural heritage and economic potentials in our operational area to attract investment for job creation”, he said.
Mr Danquah explained the Authority had designed several projects and put in place social interventions programmes aimed at job creation and poverty reduction, saying at least about 1,000 young people in the MBDA’s operational area would benefit from direct or indirect jobs from the intervention.
He said so far the MBDA had constructed and handed over 12 public toilets to help end open defecation in deprived communities, and also provided a Community-based Health Planning Services (CPHS) compound for the Mesidan community.
All these projects, including six separate number three unit classroom blocks spread across the region were constructed at the cost of about GHC3 million, he added.
Mr Danquah therefore called on the various District and Municipal Assemblies to help maintain the facilities, and asked the beneficiary communities to also take good care of the project as well.
Mr Peter Osei Fosu, the Nkoranza North Municipal Chief Executive expressed appreciation to the MBDA for the projects, and promised to ensure that the communities take good care and maintain them.
He called on maize farmers and the market women in the area to use the facility and avoid selling their produce along roadsides which endangered their lives.
Nana Poku Dankonto, the Chief of Asekye, thanked the MBDA for the facilities, saying the farmers produce maize in commercial quantities, and appealed to the government to set up storage facilities to tackle post-harvest losses.
Skynewsroom
